Jamie Peck

Title/Position: Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political EconomyDepartment/Faculty/Institution: Geography, University of British ColumbiaDegree(s)/School(s): BA, PhD University of ManchesterE-mail: jamie.peck@ubc.caWebsite:http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~peck/

MCRI Projects: A2: Governance; C2: North America Research Cluster.

Background: Jamie Peck is an economic geographer, with research interests in urban theory, policy, and politics; labor geography and labor-market restructuring; neoliberalization; theories of socioeconomic regulation and governance; and economic restructuring. His publication record includes nine books and more than 200 research articles, translated into more than a dozen languages. Peck’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund of New York, NSF, SSHRC, ESRC, and the European Commission. Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Previously, he was Professor of Geography & Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. The recipient of Guggehneim and Harkness fellowships, Peck has held visiting positions at Melbourne, Johns Hopkins, Witwatersrand, Oslo, Nottingham, Queen’s University Belfast, Amsterdam, and the National University of Singapore.